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-What
is prayer?
Prayer
is the lifting up of our minds and hearts to God.
-Why
do we pray?
We
pray to:
1.
Adore God, expressing to Him our love and loyalty.
2.
Thank God for His
benefits.
3.
Ask
for graces and
blessings for others and ourselves.
-How
should we pray?
We
should pray with:
1.
Attention.
2.
The sense of our dependence on God.
3.
A great
desire for the graces we ask of Him.
4.
Loving trust in
His goodness.
5.
Perseverance.
-For
whom should we pray?
We
should pray for
1.
Ourselves.
2.
Our parents and relatives.
3.
Our friends and
enemies.
4.
The souls departed.
5.
Our spiritual leaders, i.e. priests, bishops, and the
Catholicos.
6.
The officials of
our country.
-Are
our prayers always acceptable before God?
Yes,
our prayers are always acceptable before God if we pray with
faith, hope, and love.
-How
many kinds of prayers are there?
There
are two kinds of prayers: private and public.
-What
is private prayer?
Private
prayer is that which we say in privacy in the morning when
we get up, and in the evening before we go to bed, and when
we face a temptation, a danger or distress.
-What
is public prayer?
Public
prayer is the participation in the Church services,
especially in the Divine Liturgy.
-How
do we know that God always hears our prayers if we pray
properly?
We
know that God always hears our prayers if we pray properly
because our Lord has promised: “Ask and you shall be
given,” “If you ask the Father anything in My Name, Thy
will give it to you.”
-Why
do we not always obtain what we pray for?
We
do not always obtain what we pray for either because we have
not prayed properly, or because God sees that what we are
asking would not be for our general good.
-What
are the prayers that every Christian should know by heart?
They
are:
1.Our
Father.
2.Glory
be to the Father.
3.Morning
and evening prayers, and prayers at meals
How
to make the sign of the Cross
We
say our prayers always by first making he sign of the Cross.
‘We make the sign of the Cross in this way:
We
join together the thumb, the index, and the
middle fingers of
the right hand. We bend down the other two fingers to
the palm of our hand.
Holding
our right hand we touch first our forehead saying: “In the
name of The Father,” then our chest saving: ‘and of The
Son,” then our left breast saying: “and of The Holy”
then our right breast saying: ‘Spirit’ Then opening
our hand we put it on our chest saying: “Amen”.
Lord’s
Prayer
Making
the sign of tile Cross we say: ‘In the name of The Father
and of The Son and of The holy Spirit
Amen.”
Our
Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom
come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us
this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as
we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not
into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the
kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever.
Amen. (Make the sign of the Cross while ending.)
A
Morning Prayer
O
Lord, open Thou my lips; and my mouth shall sing Thy praise.
I thank Thee, O Lord my God, for Thou hast awakened me from
my sleep with Thy loving kindness; I beseech Thee that Thou
also awaken my mind that I may be able to see Thy truths
clearly and to have good thoughts, words, and deeds
throughout the day. Amen.
Evening
Prayer
In
the name of the Father, and the Son, and of The Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Begin
with the Lord’s Prayer, and then say:
Protector
of all, O Christ, may Thy hand shelter me by day and by
night, at home and abroad, in sleeping and in waking,
that I may
never fall Have mercy upon all Thy creatures and me.
Amen.
Grace
Before Meals
In
the name of The Father, and of The Son, and of The Holy
Spirit Amen.
Let
us partake of this food with thanksgiving, which the Lord
has prepared for us. Blessed is the Lord in
His gifts. Amen.
Thanks
After Meals
Let
us give thanks and
glory to Almighty God,
Who has fed and filled us with His good gifts. Glory
to Him forever. Amen.
-What
is a creed?
A
creed is a summary of what we believe in.
-What
does creed mean?
The
word “creed” comes from the Latin “credo” which
means “I believe,” The Armenian word for it is “Havadamk”,
which means, “we believe”.
-The
Creed
We
believe in one God the Father almighty, maker of heaven and
earth, of things visible and invisible. And in one Lord
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten of God the Father,
only-begotten, that is of the substance of the Father, God
of God, light of light, very God of very God, begotten and
not made; himself of the nature of the Father, by whom all
things came into being in heaven and on earth, visible and
invisible;
Who
for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and
was incarnate, was made man, was born perfectly of the holy
Virgin Mary by the Holy Spirit;
By
whom he took body, soul and mind and everything that is in
man, truly and not it semblance.
He
suffered and was crucified and was hurled and rose again on
the third day and ascended into heaven with the same body
and sat at the right hand of the Father.
He
is to come with the same body and with the glory of the
Father to judge the quick and the dead; of whose kingdom
there is no end.
We
believe also in the Holy Spirit, the uncreated and the
perfect, who spoke in the law and in the prophets and in the
Gospels; Who came down upon the Jordan, preached to the
apostles and dwelt in the saints, We believe also in only
one catholic and apostolic Church; In one baptism of
repentance for the remission and forgiveness of sins; in
the resurrection of the dead in the everlasting judgment of
souls and bodies In the kingdom of heaven and in the life
eternal.
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